Thing of the Week: Utah Teapot

Today was a nother very busy week in terms of awesome things, with the Biometrics cluster acquiring a few new goodies, with a few new everyday things like tarp pins, two flavors of wall clock and a hairclip, and in the realm of Fab Science, there’s a RepRap add-on,  a gear script and even DXF files for a makeable motor, and with this kind of cornucopia to choose from, I kind of had to go with one of the classics, the Utah Teapot.

I used to do ray tracing on my parents’ 486 back in high school, so I’ve definitely met this beastie before.  The current version’s no good for tea, but probably soon there’ll be a manifold pot-and-lid pair, and with the UW’s 3D Clay Printing process and maybe a bit of glazing, I may not be far from making actual tea in an actual Utah Teapot.

Needless to say it will be one of my more gleefully geeky moments all week.